Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Taking the Heat

These three photos were taken today around 6:00 p.m., after a day in which temps reached into the triple digits. These daylilies look pretty terrific, don't you think? Let me tell you a bit about them:

From the bottom: Orchid Corsage, just blooms and blooms. Excuse the spent blossom, but I have been attempting some pods. We'll see. In the middle: Glorious Appearing, one of three Bell beauties I have this year...all have been winners. The top: Victorian Lace, a Stamile daylily that really seems to live up to the hipe. Talk is it will win a Stout medal and from its performance here (first year), it's been one of the best. My only complaint is that it's not an EMO (early morning opener).

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passionate gardener (no!); former master gardener volunteer; daylily enthusiast; and aspiring novelist. I am totally, most certainly, quite positively not addicted to plants...addictions are things you need to get over...and, well, I have no intention of getting over plants! There!

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed (preferably in my pajamas)

Walt Whitman (and me)

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.

Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

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...a member of the Garden Writers Association; an American Hemerocallis Society Garden Judge; an American Hemerocallis Society Junior Exhibition Judge; and winner of a Best in Section Rosette for Best Double (my first! yea!).